According to my people, when a girl is the only child of her parents she is not allowed to get married. Custom demands that she lives in her parents’ house and reproduce to continue their lineage. I didn’t know about this until I was expected to uphold this tradition.
My father has other children, but I happen to be the only child he has with my mother. Which makes me the only child of my parents.
I don’t know if they couldn’t have other children or they just chose not to. They had the means to cater for more children so they took in their….Read Full Story Here…….
